Name Davud Monshizadeh | ||
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Known for founder of the Iranian Sumka Party Alma mater Humboldt University of Berlin | ||
Dr. Davud Monshizadeh (Persian داوود منشیزاده; born 29 August 1915 in Tehran – died 1989 in Uppsala, Sweden) was the founder of SUMKA (the "Iranian National Socialist Workers Party") and a supporter of Nazi ideology in Germany during World War II and in Iran after the war.
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Background
Monshizadeh formed Sumka in 1952. He had lived in Nazi Germany since 1937, and was a former SS member, who had fought in the Battle of Berlin and gotten injured. He was also a professor at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and was deeply influenced by Jose Ortega y Gasset's philosophy, even translating many of his books (which he hoped would serve as founding principles for the party), from Spanish to Persian. He returned to Iran in 1950. Monshizadeh would later serve as a Professor of Persian Studies at Alexandria University and Uppsala University. Monshizadeh was known as an admirer of Hitler and imitated many of the ways of the Nazi Party (such as their militarism and salute), as well as attempting to approximate Hitler's physical appearance.
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